cptaylor Posted October 20, 2005 Report Share Posted October 20, 2005 Has anyone been able to get the iteraid module complied for the 2.6.12 kernel? I recently upgraded to Mandriva 2006 but am stuck with the old 2.6.8 kernel. Any suggestions? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chalex20 Posted October 20, 2005 Report Share Posted October 20, 2005 The module is now called it821x, and not iteraid. No need to compile, it is provided by default Mandriva kernel "out of the box". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cptaylor Posted October 26, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 26, 2005 (edited) When I performed the upgrade, near the very end I got error message that basically said mkinitrd failed but gave no details. Lilo.conf did not include any reference to 2.6.12. Where do I begin looking to track down the problem? BTW, I saw somewhere that some version of the it821x driver allowed the drives to show up as ide instead of scsi (hda vs sda). Anyone know if this is the case for the 2.6.12 kernel from Mandriva? Edited October 27, 2005 by cptaylor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cptaylor Posted October 29, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 29, 2005 I think I am really in trouble now. I re-ran mkinitrd to create a boot image for 2.6.12. This seemed to run fine. I added a section to lilo.conf and ran lilo, again with no errors. However, when I tried to boot I got a kernel panic error both booting to 2.6.12 and the original 2.6.8.1. I thought I might be able to correct the problem by using the rescue feature of the installer. I selected "Reinstall Bootloader". At this point I got a couple of errors. First it could not find amd74xx.ko for my AMD756 IDE controller (this is where I have my CD & DVD drives). Second was "error inserting /tmp/it821x.ko : -1 Invalid module format" and "could not find root device". At this point I ran lsparts -v to see the partitions and all I got was "Skipping (Loop0)". I was then willing to do a complete reinstall; however as soon as I select "Install" from the main screen it freezes. Does anyone have any suggestions? I currently have no way of loading Linux at all. :( BTW, I am using the floppy boot disks to install via ftp. My CD drive has decided it doesn't like to boot anymore. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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